installing openscad

[David Strubbe]

See https://trac.macports.org/wiki/howto/InstallingOlderPort

On Thu, Dec 3, 2020 at 2:45 PM Murray Eisenberg <murrayeisenberg at gmail.com>
wrote:

> The only bison ports I find listed at ports.macports.org are 3.74_0
> (which is what I currently have installed). And “port info bison” shows ust
> that same version.
>
> How do I find an earlier version?
>
> On 3 Dec2020, at 5:33 PM, David Strubbe <dstrubbe at macports.org> wrote:
>
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 3, 2020 at 2:24 PM Murray Eisenberg <murrayeisenberg at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Do I need to uninstall the newer versions of bison? or will the build of
>> openscad automatically use the older one once that has been installed?
>>
>
> You can only have one version active at at time, like with any port.
>
>
>>
>> I note that other ports I’ve installed, namely, gstreamer1, kdelibs4,
>> p5.28-config-autoconfig, and webkit2-gtk all depend on bision. So will they
>> break if I need to uninstall the newer bison?
>>
>
> Probably they will not break. But anyway for openscad bison is only used
> at build time so after installation, you can re-activate the newer version
> of bison.
>
>>
>> On 3 Dec2020, at 5:09 PM, David Strubbe <dstrubbe at macports.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hello Murray,
>>
>> Please look at this ticket: https://trac.macports.org/ticket/61055. Try
>> the older bison version as listed.
>>
>> The other ticket is talking about whether software should be updated in
>> MacPorts, which is not offering advice aimed at users.
>>
>> David
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 3, 2020 at 2:04 PM Murray Eisenberg <
>> murrayeisenberg at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> How do I follow the recommendation from trac.macports.org ticket #61055
>>> about "updating openscad to a newer version first; maybe upstream has
>>> already fixed it", pointng to https://trac.macports.org/ticket/61056,
>>> when I cannot install openscad in the first place. I'm getting the
>>> previously reported error:
>>>
>>> {{{
>>> fatal error: 'parser.tab.h' file not found
>>> }}}
>>>
>>> I used the "port livecheck openscad"  command to find that the new
>>> version is 2019.05, but even the MacPorts openscad-devel version is only
>>> 2018.04.
>>>
>>> How proceed?
>>> ---
>>> Murray Eisenberg murrayeisenberg at gmail.com
>>> 503 King Farm Blvd #101
>>> Rockville, MD 20850-6667 Mobile (413)-427-5334
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> ---
>> Murray Eisenberg murrayeisenberg at gmail.com
>> 503 King Farm Blvd #101
>> Rockville, MD 20850-6667 Mobile (413)-427-5334
>>
>>
>>
> ---
> Murray Eisenberg murrayeisenberg at gmail.com
> 503 King Farm Blvd #101
> Rockville, MD 20850-6667 Mobile (413)-427-5334
>
>
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